River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22
C. Stevenson is home from Dakota.

c. Stevenson is home from Dakota.
Harvey Powell is clerking in the
bank at Baldwin.
Osro Farnsworth, of Glendale, Da-
: kota, is in town.
: p. E. Bradshaw. of Superior, arriv.
ed in town last evening.
The schools Of the city closed last
Friday for the holiday season.
Miss Sarah Powell has presented her
self with a beautiful piano of the
Decker Bros. make.
Subscriptions for the JOURNAL have
been pouring in at a very gratifying
rate of late.
Prof. IL. MaeClay. of the public
school, has gone to st. Louis, Mo-, TO
spend vacation.
Mr.. c. Walters supplies our citizens
periodically with a choice article of
hulled corn.
The annual election of officers of
River Falls Chapter, r. A. NJ, will be
held next Saturday evening.
Hiram Gibbs came down from Grand
Forks. ID. T., last Friday. and will spend
the winter with the folks at home.
The January number, 1888, of ''Pe.
tersOn's Magazine" came to hand early
in The month. This opening number
for the new year is decided success.
Percy APP Roberts has taken clerk.
ship in the River Falls tank. but will
only devote Saturdays TO the business
at present.
Prof. G. A. Wilcox was over from
MenOmOnie last week to witness the
theatrical performance of the River
Falls amateurs.
Prof. S. Hillyer's Speciality Compa-
ny and Gift Entertainment at Opera
Hall Thursday. Friday and Saturday
evenings of this week.
Prof. A. w. Burton, of the High
School, accompanied by his wife, is
spending the holiday vacation with
relatives in Clark county.
A heavy snow storm set in on Tues
day and continued until Wednesday
afternoon, and there is now no lack of
''the beautiful for all practical pur-
poses.
| The JOURNAL does excellent service
as an advertising medium by reason of
its large circulation.
The River Falls Theater Company
played at Ellsworth last Friday night
to full house. They are highly
pleased at the reception the Els
WORTHLESS gave them.
Harper's Magazine for the first
month of the new year shows the de-
termination of its Editor to keep that
periodical up to the highest point of
excellence in every respect.
Superintendent G. L. Bowman and
Prof. C. j. Brewer, principal of the
Ellsworth graded school. were among
the notables who called at the JOUR
NAL sanctum last Friday.
Hon. n. Z. Haugen will not go to
Washington until after Tie holiday ad-
journment. This is authentic, and all
previous reports are rescinded. His
health is rapidly improving.
Eden Woodwork, little son of d.
W. Woodwork, of Ellsworth, came
out last week to visit his grandmother.
Mrs. Loriug. He can't go home until
he gets over the measles.
mo Room for Jesus is the subject
for the morning discourse to be given
at the Congregational church next
Sunday. In the evening there will be
a song service and doings appropriate
to Christmas.
If you are making a collection Of
calendars, send ten cents in stamps or
cash to Messrs. Doliber, GoOdale Il Co.
of Boston, Mass, for their elegant one
for the New Year. 1t was designed
aud engraved by John A. Lowell & Co.,
and is an exquisite work of art.
Messrs. Albert and Joe Foster are
shipping one hundred quarts of milk
daily to firm in st. Paul under con-
tract, which extends to the first of
May next. They get three cents
quart, deliye red in st. Paul..
The best family weekly newspaper
in the United States is the Toledo
Blade NE .sby's paper.) They invite
every res der of this paper to send for
free s pecimen copy. 1t is the lar
gest AM best dollar paper published.
See adv ertisement elsewhere.
The removal of Prof. Sanborn, of n.
H., al ter being pronounced incurable
by d score of physicians, from Los
Vegas, n. NJ, TO his home, was effected
by administering DR.. Harter's Iron
Tonic, which has restored him to his
former good health.
job anie KnOwIton, for a number of
years with f. j. Burhyte, will 20 on
the road for the dry goods house of
Powers Bros. of st. Paul, the first of
the year. Johnnie is an upright, ac-
tive fellow and is bound to meet with
success. He has our well wishes.
Hereafter the Sunday afternoon